We respect our employees and aim to create a work environment where employees can work cheerfully and enthusiastically, create a nurturing work culture, and promote a balance between corporate, social, and private life within that environment and culture.

Fostering human resources

We have put in place systems and training programs for our personnel as we strive to achieve a corporate climate that can best reflect the skills possessed by and challenges faced by our employees in our management and business practices. Our training program includes stratified training by job level and years of service, as well as objective-based training.

Examples of stratified training programs

Examples of objective-based training programs

Promoting the active involvement of diverse human resources

The existence of diverse viewpoints and senses of values that reflect different experiences, technical skills, and attributes regardless of gender, nationality or other traits among employees is the strength that allows a company to continuously grow. We believe that active involvement of diverse human resources at Takara Bio is essential to achieving continued growth going forward.

Employee composition at Takara Bio (not the Group)

Achieving a comfortable workplace environment and a work-life balance

We are working hard to put workplace and labor environments in place that will allow our employees to work comfortably, and are crafting systems to ensure that all our employees can work enthusiastically while maintaining a balance between their work and their personal lives in keeping with their individual lifestyles.

Items	Breakdown		FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021
No. of employees by region	Japan		480**	517	570
	Overseas	U.S.	207	206	202
		China	588	589	587
		Europe	71	81	88
		Other	89	92	92

*　FY2019 means for the year ended Mar 31, 2019.
** Temporary decrease due to business transfer during the fiscal year.

Employee Information (Takara Bio)

Items	Breakdown	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021
No. of employees by region	Male	287	300	327
	Female	193	217	243
Diversity	Employees with disabilities (%)	2.2	2.2	2.9
	Women in managerial positions*1 (%)	20.5	21.4	25.9
Status of employees	Average years of service	13 years and one month	13 years and one month	12 years and 8 month
	Average age	40 years and 11 months	40 years and 10 months	41 years and 0 month
	Average annual remuneration (Tens of thousands of yen)	694	694	695
	No. of women who have taken childcare leave	11	7	5
	No. of men who have taken childcare leave	1	0	6
	Women who returned to work after taking childcare leave (%)	100	100	100
	Monthly average of overtime hours	17.75	20.88	25.55
	Annual paid holidays taken (%)	10.63	10.81	9.78
	Turnover*2(%)	6.7	1.2	1.8

*1 Women in managerial position as of the end of March 2016 *2 Turnover of newly-graduated employees who leave within three years of service